From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: git and changelogs Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 21:10:37 +0200 Message-ID: References: <877ie3cd85.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210619802 6890 80.91.229.12 (12 May 2008 19:16:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 19:16:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel To: Neil Jerram Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 12 21:17:17 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JvdVz-0001DE-El for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 21:16:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44235 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JvdVG-0005mV-Gm for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 15:16:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JvdVB-0005mB-JS for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 15:16:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JvdVA-0005lj-5w for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 15:16:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38683 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JvdVA-0005lg-0P for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 15:16:00 -0400 Original-Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:62893 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JvdV9-0005yz-ST for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 15:16:00 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDB315721; Mon, 12 May 2008 15:15:58 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from unquote (251.Red-81-39-162.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net [81.39.162.251]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FC0956FD; Mon, 12 May 2008 15:15:57 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <877ie3cd85.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (Neil Jerram's message of "Fri, 09 May 2008 23:41:14 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: DA55F696-2057-11DD-AD2D-80001473D85F-02397024!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:7236 Archived-At: Hi Neil, On Sat 10 May 2008 00:41, Neil Jerram writes: > Andy Wingo writes: > >> Now that we've switched to git, hows about moving our changelogs to >> ChangeLog.old, and just using commit logs? We can still generate >> changelogs on release, if that's a desire. > > Do you mean that we would still have the same level of detail that we > currently put in ChangeLog, but we would put that in the commit > message instead? Yes, that's what I mean. > I'm worried that there isn't AFAIK anything as nice as `C-x 4 a' for > adding one detail of a change to a pending commit message. Ludovic mentioned emacs' git.el, which I'm unfamiliar with. I use the great DVC. I wrote about it here: http://wingolog.org/archives/2008/03/11/using-newfangled-version-control-systems-from-emacs In short: there are excellent solutions. Unfortunately none of them are bound to C-x 4 a. Fortunately C-x 4 a was always hard to type anyway. Andy -- http://wingolog.org/